Paid Media Manager

Location: Leeds / hybrid (one day per week in the office)

Job Type: Full-time

Reports to: Senior Paid Media Manager

About the role

AYKO is on the lookout for a PPC/Paid Media expert who’s looking for a step forward in their career!


We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Paid Media Manager to lead the planning, execution, and optimisation of our paid advertising campaigns across multiple platforms. In this role, you will oversee the strategy and day-to-day operations of paid media efforts, working to increase brand awareness, drive high-quality traffic, and achieve measurable ROI. You’ll work with a portfolio of existing clients as well as build our portfolio and grow our revenue opportunities.


With this role, we’re looking for someone who wants to help build our team of paid media specialists with support from our Senior Paid Media Manager. This role is working towards a Head of Paid Media role, someone with a strong paid media background who’s looking to accelerate their career with the right support. We’re looking for someone who knows their way around Google ads, understands PPC and is ambitious.


We’ve designed a programme to support the right person with the knowledge, training and tools to thrive within this role. All of our team receive individually tailored training plans designed to help them progress their career at AYKO. All that we require is the right person with the right mindset with a hunger for long-term success and evidence of strong paid media experience.


At AYKO we create and market high-quality e-commerce websites for well-known brands and we’re growing at a great pace thanks to our great reputation! We’re looking to scale our paid media offering.

A Paid Media Manager will…

• Lead the Creation and Execution of Paid Media strategy: This is a hands-on role and you’ll need to be able to design and deliver a paid media strategy with a particular focus on PPC and implementation for our clients and potential clients. Working with clients to ensure that they meet their goals and targets with knowledgeable advice and expertise.
• Budget Management: We’re looking for someone with strong attention to detail who is comfortable with numbers and managing clients’ budgets independently.
• Revenue generation: You’ll be responsible for maximising the opportunities for our existing Paid Media clients, ensuring that we deliver great value for their budgets and that we make recommendations for their strategy that will provide mutual benefit.
• Building the Paid Media portfolio: You’ll look for opportunities both internally and externally to pro-actively grow our Paid Media portfolio, to ensure that it continues to be an area of opportunity for our agency. This will include support with new business forecasts and client pitches.
• Account Management: Providing outstanding account management for Paid Media - tracking, monitoring, and analysing activity and results to demonstrate impact and return on investment for our clients and assist our Account Management team in the broader relationships they have with clients including client calls and meetings.
• Supplier management: Be the point of contact with key suppliers including Google and Microsoft to understand the latest product developments, BETAS, and drive client performance forwards.
• Thought Leadership: Acting as our AYKO thought leader in this space - working with other members of the team to share knowledge and improve their understanding. Acting as a thought leader externally to build the AYKO brand and awareness.
• Mentoring and management: With this role, we’re looking to develop a team and are looking for someone with the skills to train and develop a future team of paid media experts and someone who is a real leader.
• Process management: We’re looking for someone who can improve the efficiency of our current service and can improve and build upon our current approach.